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ABSTRACT

1.OVERVIEW

2.INFLATIONARY COSMOLOGY: MODELS

3.INFLATIONARY COSMOLOGY: PERTURBATIONS

4.TESTING INFLATION

4.1.Quantifying microwave background anisotropies

4.2.The key tests of inflation

4.2.1.Spatial flatness

4.2.2.Gaussianity and adiabaticity

4.2.3.Vector and tensor perturbations

4.2.4.Growing mode perturbations

5.PRESENT AND FUTURE

5.1.The current status of inflation

5.2.Prospects for the future

6.NEW DIRECTIONS

6.1.The braneworld

6.2.The Ekpyrotic Universe

7.SUMMARY

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